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As natural buffers between humans and disease-carrying animals erode, pandemics as bad as the current one could become even more likely.
Despite humanity’s efforts, influenza pandemics have swept the world on average three times a century for the last 500 years.
The links between climate change and pandemics are also becoming clearer.
A Gender Lens for COVID-19NEW YORK – When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat.
When it comes to climate change, pandemics, and terrorism – all exacerbated by globalization – it is not hard to see why.
Societies need to be better prepared to cope with inevitable pandemics or extreme weather events caused by climate change.
Indeed, many of the dynamics of pandemics also apply to climate-related issues.
Pandemics and ProgressAMMAN – Humanity has survived many pandemics throughout history.
These include the demographic explosion in Sub-Saharan Africa; climate change, which is undermining food security; recurrent pandemics; ethnic conflict; and a shortage of jobs.
COVID-19 has forced us to recognize that the Anthropocene signifies a relentless feedback loop in which our behavior unleashes chain reactions that accelerate both climate change and the spread of pandemics.
On issues like climate change, peacekeeping, counter-terrorism, nuclear and other arms control, and – for the most part – responding to pandemics, China has played a more interested, constructive, and potentially cooperative role than has generally been recognized.
If we are collectively to survive not just the normal depredations of global markets, but also the existential threats posed by pandemics and climate change, there is no alternative.
Most obviously, it raises the question of how the world should organize itself against the threat of pandemics.
This is because connectivity increases what statisticians call “fat-tailedness,” or the likelihood of inherently unquantifiable extreme events such as financial crises, a nuclear holocaust, hostile artificial intelligence, global warming, destructive biotechnology, and pandemics.
Humanity must organize itself to mitigate the tail risks associated with climate change, pandemics, bioterror, and unmanaged AI.
Throughout its history, American democracy has innovated to adjust to technological change, wars, pandemics, and other shocks.
It is whether the US can work with an inner core of allies to promote democracy and human rights while cooperating with a broader set of states to manage the rules-based international institutions needed to face transnational threats such as climate change, pandemics, cyber-attacks, terrorism, and economic instability.
Countries in or near the tropics are also disproportionately affected by the floods, droughts, and hurricanes associated with climate change, and by the warming temperatures expected to encourage more pandemics in the future.
For example, we have now learned that during pandemics, we should stay six feet (two meters) from others and wear face masks.
That also will be the moment for governments, scientists, and the public to pause, take stock of lessons learned, and introduce plans to make societies more resilient and better able to cope with possible future pandemics.
Conserving nature is also essential to prevent pandemics from recurring.
The death of the superstar city has been predicted before, yet urban areas have always demonstrated an extraordinary capacity to bounce back, including from pandemics and plagues.
Technological change is putting a number of issues – including financial stability, climate change, terrorism, cybercrime, and pandemics – on the global agenda at the same time that it tends to weaken governments’ ability to respond.
The realm of transnational relations outside of government control includes, among others, bankers and criminals electronically transferring funds, terrorists transferring weapons and plans, hackers using social media to disrupt democratic processes, and ecological threats such as pandemics and climate change.
But deadly pandemics represent just one of many possible threats looming on the horizon.
The US should have started preparing for the risks of pandemics and climate change years ago.
Preventing pandemics and other major public-health risks requires empowering the World Health Organization both politically and economically.
Owing to modern science and technology, and our capacity for collective action, we already have the tools to prevent, manage, and contain global pandemics.
In 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration shut down the US National Security Council’s unit for coordinating responses to pandemics.
Although it is antithetical to Trump’s idea of “America First,” a multilateral response to pandemics is obviously in America’s national interest.
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